CATEGORY

Foil Stamp

RANK


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Quantity

100 limited ed.

Page Count

Paper Stock

Mohawk Strathmore Premium Wove, Bright White, 130lb cover

Number of Colors

5

Dimensions

8 × 10

Binding

Special Techniques

Blind emboss


ADDL. DESIGN CREDITS

Designers

Brent Couchman, Nate Luetkehans


ADDL. PRODUCTION CREDITS


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LINKS

The Weekend Press

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CLIENT

The Week­end Press, based in Oak­land, CA, is a let­ter­press print stu­dio found­ed in mid-2013 by Jen­ny Pan and Peter Pham. Work­ing as graph­ic design­ers, they were always inspired by the irre­place­able tac­tile qual­i­ty of print. So, the two set out to build a place where they, along with oth­er cre­atives, could pro­duce beau­ti­ful work with letterpress.


BRIEF

Col­lab­o­rate with a group of cre­atives to pro­duce a let­ter­press and foil print­ed lim­it­ed edi­tion art print.


APPROACH

This piece was designed as a cel­e­bra­tion of Cal­i­for­nia, with mul­ti­ple let­ter­press and foil print runs in mind. The com­plex design show­cas­es a close col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two design­ers, along with The Week­end Press.

PRODUCTION LESSONS

This particular design had several challenges which included the tight registration. Because of the way that the geometric shapes joined with each other corner to corner, there was no tolerance for misalignment. Another hurdle was holding registration with the letterpress; after numerous print runs, the larger sheet begins warping due to consecutive impressions.

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